Too right, we had better keep a close eye on those coppers.

Hell with in a decade or two, they could start to become as violent as union thugs, or even the ratbag green protesters. We wouldn't want to see that happening, now would we.

Judging by the Greens' attitudes and actions in demonstrations and the tactics they use the prevent people from getting to venues to hear conservative speakers, I would have thought they enjoyed a bit of the old biffo.

Foxy,

"... by people who are supposed to be
in the job of protecting - not attacking members of the public."

Could you kindly give a reference to where it says that it is part of the job of the police to protect the public?

Foxy: I think that it's never a bad idea to look for ways in which we can improve things. Ways in which to better identify problems and confront these problems

That's exactly what Dutete is doing in the Philippines. They tried everything else & the problem was getting worse. Like my grandmother used to say, "Use the soft end of the brush on the soft end of the Child. If that doesn't work reverse them both." That's exactly what Dutete is doing & it's working, going on what my neighbours told me at the welcome home in the Street for them.

Another idea they have over there is minor Criminals work the State run Banana Plantations. They are allowed to live with their family in a home they have to build & the Community of Criminals have a Council to deal with anyone who plays up. If someone plays up the entire family is punished & maybe removed to an enclosed Prison without any privileges. Apparently the Communities run very well. There are no fences. This system was introduced by an American Professor around 1912. They are the only areas where the is no, or little crime.

Unfortunately, now-a-days, the mahommedeans gangs are disrupting the Plantations in the Southern Philippines (Mindanao) & the Island is becoming unsafe.

DD asks the question; Why would a squad of police see it as necessary to take an arrest to the extreme of violence, for one subject?

Which is not a very difficult question to answer at all. Whenever you have a group of individuals together, with a pertinacity towards violence, be they a gang, a group of soldiers, or four police constables, who have been trained to participate in violent behaviour.
The group will act together differently than they would otherwise as individuals. That is nothing new, its well known fact.
In this case, it is significant that there were four coppers involved. It would be highly unlikely that as individuals, or even a group of two that they would have acted in the same violent manner as they did. Some doctors liken this behavior to a sexual experience. It could be possible that the main perpetrator or others, could have ejaculated in their trousers while having an erection during the experience. Something they are not likely to admit to.

The infamous case in history is Rodney King in the US back in 1991.

Hi there PAUL1405...

I thought you and I were over this business of trading insults. You've no idea at all what it is to be a copper, or to walk in their shoes. Of course police make mistakes, some are very bad, (unforgivable) mistakes, why because they're only human. I'd ask you to pause a little, and ask yourself how easy it might be to place an individual offering resistive behaviour, under arrest?